Panaev Ivan Ivanovich

(1812 - 62)
Nephew VI. Panayeva, education in the former boarding school at St. Petersburg University. Before the year 1845 in the service. In literary career P. made in 1834, a number of stories, which was an imitator Marlinskogo ( "Bedroom society woman," "White Heat", etc.). In the second half of 1830 M. often traveled to Moscow, where he met there the writers and especially became close and Belinsky, who through him had been invited AA. Krajewski was in charge of critical section of Fatherland Notes. Under the influence of Belinsky P. abandoned the melodramatic manner Marlinskogo. In AP stories, written circa 1840 ( "beautiful people" and others), the observed shift in the way of realistic art, but gifted with great talents, P. dissolves in the small details. To a lesser extent, these shortcomings manifest themselves in the fictional works of the mature period of P. These include: "Mama's Boy (1845), . "Relatives" (1847), . "Meeting at the station" (1847), . "Lions in the province" (the only great novel P., . appeared in a separate volume, . St.Petersburg, . 1852), . "Dude" - the grand, . provincial and dude High School (1856) and, . Finally, . tale of memories of St. Petersburg, Russian millionaire's grandson "(1858),
. Panayeva, a writer whose temperament is characterized by a feminine softness, were not successful solid images and strong characters, but he gave a number of survivors, a lot of spectacular and dramatic scenes along with scenes full of genuine humor. Especially distinguished female characters P., . who liked to prove the superiority of Russian women on various landlords Vitelloni, . merchant grandchildren, . dude and fashionable lions and once even - in the novel "Relatives" - the 23-year-old Hamlets (to the image of Russia Hamlets P,
. began earlier Turgenev), and the heroines of their P. took from bureaucrats, merchants and landowners, but not from the grand. The larger significance in the history of Russian Literature II. has both a coffee activist. In 1847 he, along with Nekrasov, revived the "Contemporary" (see), they managed to attract the best literary forces to participate in this magazine, who headed the intellectual movement in one of the most turbulent eras in Russian social life. In The Contemporary P., under the pseudonym of New poet, wrote witty satires - the critical first, then about life in Petersburg. Under the same pseudonym P. published a collection of his poems - parody (St. Petersburg, 1859). Shortly before his death P. published his famous memoirs, giving many valuable material for studying one of the most important eras in the history of Russian literature (1830 and 1840's). Collected Works II. published in 1860 and in 1889 (St. Petersburg). Wed. SS. Trumpeter in "The Historical Gazette (1889,? 4).